PAUL MCCARTNEY felt "betrayed" after Elvis Presley told President Richard Nixon that The Beatles were "anti-American" during a meeting about how to combat drug culture.

Just before Christmas 1970, Elvis Presley managed to organise a meeting with President Richard Nixon in the White House’s Oval Office. The King felt he could use his status to help fight drug culture by reaching out to hippies. And during the conversation, Elvis spoke of The Beatles as having an anti-American leaning, according to Peter Guralnick’s Careless Love biography.